Lie-detector Tests

March 14, 1986|By Deanne Brandon

CURTAILED. The House has voted to bar most private companies from requiring lie- detector tests as a condition of employment. Exceptions: Security guards, day-care workers, employees of drug companies. Rep. Matthew Martinez, D-Calif., the bill's sponsor, said the use of polygraphs ''elevates a voodoo craft into a science.'' The number of tests administered by the private sector has tripled in the past ten years to more than 2 million in 1985.